glorkon

Must be a case of this superior sense of humor that we Germans famously do not possess.

I hate how accurate this is.

This is also how they end.

I never specifically said “joining US military is bad”, I said joining the military in general is a bad thing. And neither did I talk about nukes, which are the ultimate evil. I also never demanded to remove the military capabilities of one country, leaving it open for other countries to attack. I never talked about these things, about balance of power, about mutually assured destruction and all these geostrategic aspects of military logic. All I said was - if you are a person who joins your country’s military, I despise you. Period. This is a statement I made completely disregarding all these other aspects you mention, and it is completely logically valid on its own.

You failed to get the point I was making. Just because the military is a driving factor to technological progress, doesn’t mean it’s a good thing all of a sudden. And all that progress could also have been made by science. Wernher von Braun didn’t care who funded his research into rockets.

Would we have the Autobahn if Hitler hadn’t built it?

Thank you very much for saying that, but in hindsight it was actually a great life experience. I met a man who was 103 at the time, in 1997. So he was 21 years old when WWI broke out. He later joined the German socialist party SPD, he resisted the Nazis and was forced to emigrate, he had such amazing stories to tell. I think he played a big part in why I became interested in politics, German history and also why I became an antifascist and anti-militarist. Him and the fact that the Nazis executed one of my two grandfathers for “defaitism”.

Feeling you have no other option (despite being a lot of other jobs on offer) and totally not having any other option (because they’ll put you in jail for not paying taxes) are two completely different things. With all due respect, but there is no reason to join the army unless they force you to. Even when Germany still had mandatory military service and they wanted to draft me, I opted to wipe old peoples’ butts instead because that was the only way out. Don’t you dare tell me there is no other option.

If you read my first comment, I explicitly said “out of their own free will”. I do not pay taxes out of my own free will, so your comparison is invalid.

We wouldn’t see images like the Iranian girl’s rucksack smeared with blood.

Yeah. Why not just lead a normal life. I wish society would frown upon people choosing to become soldiers like they do on prostitutes. But instead, all this glorification and militarism makes them think being a soldier is a commendable thing. In my view, prostitutes should get the medals. They literally make love, not war.

Absolutely agree. I happen to be German, by the way. My grandfather was forced into the Wehrmacht, he tried fleeing the battlefield, he got executed. Anyone who works for the military enables politicians to wage war. And no soldier will ever be able to 100% prove their actions never led to anyone getting hurt. Soldiers know and accept that and that’s why I despise them.

Working for the military makes you a war enabler. Best case. You help making it possible for some government asshole to wage war. Worst case, you become a murderer. So whether you’re in battle or not only decides if you’re a murderer or helping murderers. None of these possibilities are acceptable. Period.

You join the USN, you help with the logistics, someone somewhere presses a button, a cruise missile is fired, obliterates a target and a few bad guys, some civilians die as collateral damage - to me, you’ve helped kill these civilians even though, admittedly, you’ve only played a very minor role. I very much doubt there are any contracts at the USN that 100% exclude that possibility and I’m not giving anyone a benefit of the doubt.

I despise anyone who becomes a soldier of their own free will. The moment you enlist, you accept that you will be obliged to kill, and that you will have no control over whether that killing will be justified.

Ain’t nobody got thyme for that.

It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool.

That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying. I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.

Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit… Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?

Alright, you hypocrites who downvote me without having the balls to respond: Where do you draw the line? Just tell me, I wanna know. I’m fucking German, should I joke about buying Anne Frank a drum set? Where’s off limits? Instead of cowardly downvoting, have the fucking balls to engage in a discussion. Pathetic.

It’s a rather lame joke. The premise has been used a thousand times already. It’s at the expense of someone’s disability. Ask yourself how often Peter Dinklage has seen this joke in his life. You can joke about everything, but at least make a fucking effort.

You can make jokes about everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and sensitive the subject, you better make sure it’s a fucking good joke. People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same lame punch line - the one along the line of this post.

Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it. Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that’s still okay with way too many people…

Of course Christians are absolutely fine with people being gay. After all, they’re the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.

Ooh, shots fired.

Yeah. I have it on CD. They had it on vinyl, too, but I refused to buy the record because it was scratched.

Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackeluber und der bitte schön ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. “Nein”, sprecht der Herren, “Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen”.

A rule that asks users to post before they leave seems arbitrary, that’s why it’s confusing to me. If people only post because it’s rule, I thought a logical consequence would be tons of posts of low quality.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does “leave” mean in this context?

I got banned on Lefty Memes for asking for evidence. :)

I’m here for over a year and I still don’t get much of what’s going on here. For example, why posts are titled “rule”.